Water Bugs and Jumping Beans!

After much procrastination, we finally enrolled the kids in weekly Saturday morning swim lessons. The 30-minute lessons start at 9:30 for Will and at 10:00 for the girls. After the lessons are over, we head over to the farmer's market for shopping and a little lunch. Here is a group photo of all the kids waiting for their session to begin while watching the kids in the 9:00 class. As with most kids, Natalie, Amanda and Will all love to swim!

The infant class requires at least one parent to jump in the water with their child, so Daddy is the lucky one to have fun with Will. Here, Will gets warmed up by gathering toys from the side of the pool and taking them to the floating basket and dropping them in.

Will and Daddy sing the welcome song and spin around with teacher, Ms. Catherine.

Will learns to jump into Daddy's arms while sitting and waiting from the pool side.

Below, Will can be seen standing up on Daddy's chest and ready to jump into the middle of the ring.

Next, it is the girls' turn to kick their feet. Last week was their first lesson and they put their face in the water and blew bubbles 10 times in a row, enough to earn them ribbons and stickers for achieving their first milestone.

The girls love their teacher, Maggie, and do anything she requests. (Mom and Dad wish they were so lucky!) Below, the girls hold on the to body board and kick up a storm.

Having fun with the floating frog.

After our lesson, we quickly made it over to the farmer's market. This place is so kid friendly and there is always something entertaining for them to enjoy during our visit. Our little fish seemed to turn into jumping beans in a matter of minutes!